1858 – Crossing the Atlantic With Cable
Two ships head out to begin work on what will become the first operational Transatlantic cable. Previous attempt at laying a Transatlantic cable had filed. Designed for telegraph operation, the cable run is completed on August 5th and the first test message is sent on August 12th. However, the cable fails on September 18th and repair was not possible at the time.
1943 – Hungarians László and George Bíró, while living in Argentina, patented the first successful implementation of the ballpoint pen.
1977 – Apple II shipped Today
Apple Computer Inc. ships its Apple II computer. The first in a long time of related computers, the original model cost $1,298 and came with 4KB of RAM (upgradeable to 48 KB), and had sound and color graphics. It also had the BASIC programming language built-in, which made programming easy. Apple II’s sold particularly well in schools and, with the arrival of the VisiCalc spreadsheet program, in the small business market as well.
1998 – Seiko Introduces Ruputer
Seiko introduces the world’s first wearable PC watch called the Ruputer. It was marketed under the OnHand PC name. The Ruputer had a 3.6 MHz processor and 2 MB of non-volatile storage. The 102x64 monochrome LCD could display data or play games. A joystick with six function buttons was on the Ruputer. This watch could download picture and had three applications that ran on Windows 95. Ruputer cost $285.
2003 – The Spirit Rover launched on a Delta II rocket, beginning NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission.
2013 – Apple introduced iOS 7 and Apple OS X Mavericks at their Worldwide Developer Conference in San Francisco. They also gave a sneak peek at the new cylindrical Mac Pro and announced their streaming music service called iTunes Radio.
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